Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Appropriate or relevant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Placed near to; specifically, in botany, lying side by side, in contact, or partly united.
- Suitable; fit; appropriate; applicable; well adapted: followed by to: as, this argument is very apposite to the case; “ready and apposite answers,” Bacon, Hen. VII., p. 120.
- . Apt; ready in speech or answer: said of persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by
to .
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- adjective
Appropriate ,relevant , well-suited;fit . - adjective Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in
apposition . - adjective
Related ,homologous . - noun rare Something that is apposite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
Etymologies
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Examples
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The title is apposite: Kravitz straddles the divide like no other with his drop-dead girlfriends and pads.
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Also, that Woody Allen story that Antid linked is kind of apposite, and funny. jhupp Says:
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That's Jorge Grau, director of the cannibal zombie classic The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue... kind of apposite because this was at the annual Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, where the two of us helped out with the presentation work for more years than I care to count.
The Living Dead at the Manchester Festival Stephen Gallagher 2008
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"Sensory Crossovers" makes the opposite mistake, taking a New Mexicentric viewpoint that privileges Georgia O'Keeffe and her Stieglitzian friends (Arthur Dove, Helen Torr, Charles Demuth, Burchfield), for instance, or the Taos couple Louis Ribak and Beatrice Mandelman over equally apposite practitioners such as Fischinger and Russell.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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"Sensory Crossovers" makes the opposite mistake, taking a New Mexicentric viewpoint that privileges Georgia O'Keeffe and her Stieglitzian friends (Arthur Dove, Helen Torr, Charles Demuth, Burchfield), for instance, or the Taos couple Louis Ribak and Beatrice Mandelman over equally apposite practitioners such as Fischinger and Russell.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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A very apposite complement to the OBO I've just read.
Sporting dreams that end lying in bed next to Geoffrey Boycott | Emma John | 2011
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Few writers of criticism are able to combine such a compelling and frankly "superior" prose with correspondingly apposite critical insights as does William Gass.
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It may be almost 90 years old, but The Great Gatsby is as apposite as ever.
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When would be the apposite time to slap the Captain and take control?
Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Hunt down the most apposite or amenable folks and spread the inbox love to spare the pain!
Community management under the bonnet: 23 things « Innovation Cloud 2009
padawan commented on the word apposite
apposite: appropiate.
apósito: venda.
January 10, 2008
whichbe commented on the word apposite
An apposite opposite of opposite.
August 26, 2008
burntsox commented on the word apposite
I impressed my wife -- hard to do -- by dropping this word appropriately (appositely?) into conversation. Thanks, Wordies!
October 26, 2008
oroboros commented on the word apposite
Kangaroo word: APposiTe
June 12, 2009
moreorless commented on the word apposite
I love this word.
December 29, 2009
duckbill commented on the word apposite
Charles John Smith, in his book Synonyms Discriminated, makes a useful distinction between apposite and relevant:
"Apposite expresses a quality, relevant a force. A remark is apposite which harmonizes with the case under consideration. An observation is relevant which helps the main question to a decision. . . . The apposite elucidates, the relevant promotes discussion. The apposite is a proposition; the relevant either an argument, or something which links itself to an argument. Apposite remarks are commonly made in general conversation by persons not taking a main part in the discussion, but throwing in pertinent sayings as listeners. The relevant owes its force solely to its argumentative appropriateness; the apposite is also timely, and often tells with peculiar effect upon the conjuncture at which it is introduced.
April 19, 2011